This document presents my research accomplishments and objectives as of Spring 2002. The document references and lists most of my publications, so it also serves as an annotated list of publications. In addition, Section 8 discusses my teaching and describes a textbook that I have written. Most of my recent and current research focuses on discrete and computer-architecture-related issues in num...

My long-term research objectives are:-Haptic Landscapes for Virtual Environments (VE); Human-Machine Media-Human biomechanics and neural control of movements.-Biologically inspired control of humanoid robots.-Haptic Landscapes for Virtual Environments (VE); Human-Machine Media. You feel like going for a jog. However, the temperature outside is below freezing and you don't like running in extrem...

The overall objectives of the Long Term Research on Agricultural Systems project (LTRAS) are concisely stated on a sign marking the entrance to the site -"a facility to study sustainability of agricultural systems and their impact on the environment [emphases added]." Most of the current effort at LTRAS is on the first long-term experiment -a 100 year study of annual field crop systems. However...

1.1 Summary description of project objectives The aim of ATRACO project is to contribute to the realization of trusted ambient ecologies. Interactive appliances, collaborative devices, and context aware artefacts, as well as models, services, software components are parts of ambient ecologies. A context-aware artefact, appliance or device uses sensors to perceive its context of operation and ap...

Pseudo-likelihood and contrastive divergence are two well-known examples of contrastive methods. These algorithms trade off the probability of the correct label with the probabilities of other “nearby” instantiations. In this paper we explore more general types of contrastive objectives, which trade off the probability of the correct label against an arbitrary set of other instantiations. We pr...

In this article the author concentrates on what a leader need to believe and do in order to promote the high performance that will be required for organizational success in the 21st Century. His premise is that leader values are the guiding principles that determine leader behavior, which, in turn motivates and inspires follower behavior. The author describes twenty attitudes and associated beh...

The research work carried out within the OFT-project shall provide insights, methods, and prototypic software to support the design of hydraulic closed loop control systems. The paper in hand presents an overview of the research work, motivates the current objectives of the project, and provides useful background information. In particular we develop different views of the hydraulic design proc...

In two-player games on graph, the players construct an infinite path through the game graph and get a reward computed by a payoff function over infinite paths. Over weighted graphs, the typical and most studied payoff functions compute the limit-average or the discounted sum of the rewards along the path. Besides their simple definition, these two payoff functions enjoy the property that memory...

GENERAL OBJECTIVES The course in Developmental Biology is an introduction to animal development and places special emphasis on mammalian and human development. Students have a basic knowledge of biochemistry and cell biology and begin to study the multicellular level of biological organization. The principal objective is to introduce students to the developmental processes that lead to the esta...

Meanwhile, there is at least one additional front in the survivability battle, this one involving “control objectives.” This is a relatively humdrum front, exciting to accountants possibly but not to super heros. However, the more fronts we can open, the more opportunities we have to push the conflict to our favor. This paper defines control objectives, explains their strengths—good practice, c...